Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Arabella Law Graham was born in 1869 in New Zealand – the daughter of Grace Black King and John Graham.
The family lived in Stafford St, Dunedin where her mother ran a boarding house. Arabella worked as a saleswoman.
In 1936 Arabella married Francis John O’Meara, her late sister’s widower.
She died on 12 November 1946 in Auckland and is buried in the Hillsborough Cemetery. Her husband Francis died in 1954.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
DCC Cemetery Records http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.
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